Trash-talkers

For four years, President Obama’s top aides and spokesmen watched as pundits, reporters and Republican political operatives leveled snark-laced assertions, criticisms and attacks in their direction. Now, it’s payback time.

Jon Lovett

“If [Rubin] is going to use her perch at the Post to file fluff interviews with Mitt Romney and serve as a mouthpiece for the campaign, paraphrasing talking point[s] and parroting their spin day after day, [t]hen maybe The Washington Post, a venerable newspaper, has an obligation to point out that she is a breathless Mitt Romney acolyte," Lovett, a former Obama speechwriter, lacing into The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin.